Cost effective way to connect microcontroller to internet (not wifi)

Question

All I want to do is connect a microcontroller to the internet and send something to my server whenever the micro controller has moved. I don't want to connect to wifi but rather 3g or something of that nature. I am a software engineer not a hardware engineer so as long as it connects to the internet i can do the rest.

Anybody know how I could do this?

Answer 1

Consider using SIGFOX instead. It has good coverage in the US, and increasing coverage in the UK, and presents a low-cost alternative to communications using GSM. LoRa is another alternative.

Both of these technologies are gaining traction as the IoT grows and satisfy different use cases.

Answer 2

GSM/GPRS 将允许您以本地订户提供的最便宜的数据包成本连接到互联网，但是，如果连接不良，您可以使用 GSM 回退 SMS，或者只是创建 SMS 到服务器管道而不是数据。